The qualification of a university depends on how it carried out research works. With this concept in mind, the excursion group comprises teachers of the Anthropology Department of Dagon University traveled to the land of Mro nationals for valuable research works in MaungDaw District, Rakhine State.
Majority of Mro nationals live in MaungDaw and BuThiDaung Townships, where 7 thousand of them are residing. Their villages are located in far-flung area at the beginning of the Kistsapanadi River between mountain ranges. So it is not easily accessible to the region all the year round.The houses are built along the slopes appropriately according to the land surface. The entire house is built only with bamboos.Mro nationals have a particular living style. A man usually wears a topknot slanting hair to one side with a comb or a hairpin in it. He also wears earrings. The custom of wearing flowers by mean is indeed a peculiarity. Besides, we can see that there are red spot decorated on their faces.
A woman usually has a hair bun at the nape of her neck decorated with a comb of a hairpin as ornament. She also wears hollow earplugs. Other ornaments worn by women are chain, bracelet, ring and bangle made of silver. This tradition of hairdo and dressing style is fondly preserved by Mro nationals to this day.

The most interesting custom is that Mro lovers pulled out their hair on eyebrows and eyelashes completely in turn as an act of teasing. But it is not done between brothers and sisters and married persons.
The relationship between Mro bachelors and maidens is friendly and cordial. In the evening, Mro bachelors visit the maiden’s house in groups by playing pipes made of dried gourds and bamboo harps. The host maiden receives them and has a chat with them while doing some household works at the time. But in choosing marriage partners, they have to follow some disciplines.

Paddy cultivation is their main economy. Traditionally, they grow shifting farming. Mro women also participate in cultivation works and they always take their children and dogs to their work. Mro women can carry out rice pounding, weaving by blackstrap looms and fetching water skillfully. They fetch water with dried gourds to the present day and it is a lovely custom.

They also believe in “nat” or “spirit” according to tradition. But they believe in Buddhism as well as Karama, a kind of belief. They play traditional instruments and dance happily during their all ceremony.
This is the socio economic life of the ethnic group called Mro who have been living peacefully , but shifting from one place to another and still fondly preserving their traditional customs to this day, on the mountain ranges that lie in the west of Myanmar.